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Tuesday morning arrived and saw Stephen on the FES bikes. These are the bikes where electrodes are attached to the muscles on his legs which stimulate the muscles to power the legs to pedal the bike.His physio said that that in the 17 years she had been at Craig he was the first patient to use the FES bikes and be on a ventillator. Not only that he pedalled 5 miles in 30mins which was more than some patients could do after 2 weeks!This was certainly a confidence boost and cheered us all up. He was then booked in for more sessions on Wednesday and Friday.

Wednesday came but the effort of Tuesday had tired Stephen out 

Mongoose are selling a bike with the proceeds going to the Stephen Murray fund. The bike is signed by Mongoose pro riders Simon Tabron, Steve McCann and Cameron White.  The latest bid for the comlete Mongoose Shield is currently at 200 bucks. With the signed bike having a fair market value of $ 500,= USD we want to see the price go up. It's for a good cause too. 
Take me to the auction.

Patrick Guimez is organizing a Dirt contest in Tosse, close to Hossegor in the South West of France (near the Atlantic Ocean) on 18 August 2007. It's free entry for the Pro and Am Lords of Dirt contest. Riders need to be able to handle the gap that is followed by three jumps of which the first one will be 8 meters, the second one, 6,5 meters and the last one 4,5 meters. 

Last month, the 2007 AST Dew Tour officially kicked off with the Panasonic Open in Baltimore, MD and is moving forward with four additional cities. In support of the upcoming events, we have created an exciting and unique game that I think your readers would enjoy.  The game is a “Dew Tour Mash-Up Maker.” Users can create their own Dew Tour video using action packed clips, music and sound effects. 

An old Haro Master, bashguard model. In fact, it's Mat Hoffman's old frame that he pulled the first ever 180 flip (it was a bit too up-n-down to call it a "flair") at the UK KOV in Mansfield back in 1990. It was a seminal moment in BMX. Mat pulled this trick, then immediately rode round the back of the ramp and presented the bike to a kid whose dream it was to meet Mat Hoffman as part of his Make A Wish day out. The kid was just blown away. The bike made it back to Ride BMX Mag a year or two later and now you have the chance to bid to own this piece of history. 

The Following riders are selected to ride the 2007 X-Games in Los Angeles 2-5 August 2007.

Park
1 Scotty Cranmer
2 Daniel Dhers
3 Josh Harrington
4 Ryan Nyquist
5 Morgan Wade
6 Mike Spinner
7 Garrett Reynolds *replaces Injured Webb
8 Dave Mirra
9 Dennis Enarson
10 Gary Young

The third stop of the Battle in da Club tour 2007, Germany´s first and one and only Bmx Flatland series, will be the incredible Lago Bay Beach Club in Hamburg (11.08.2007). A 5000 square meters area, everywhere you look fine-grain sand, a huge swimming pool and in the middle of this city-paradise the 16 best German & Austrian Bmx Flatlandriders will get together, to decide the best of them in a Battle mode full of suspense. One against one, man against man, because at the end there can be only one winner! After the prize giving the riders and the audience are able to abandon their selves to the sins of summer-sun-beach life, drink some Red Bull and Cocktails, enjoy the view over the bay from Hamburg or relax in the swimming pool.

The whole will be improved through the incredible Dj Coolman, the Clark Gable of the Turntables. Most of you will know him because of his membership with Fünf Sterne Deluxe.

So much has happened since Stephen arrived its hard to imagine we have only been here in Denver for less than 1 week. Stephen's clincial team are amazing. His Primary Doctor has everything under control and is taking care of all the underlying problems Stephen has had in the last 4 weeks to enable Stephen to move forward and really start his rehab.

Stephen has seen an ENT consultant for his trach, gastroenterologist for his stomach problems, Respiratory consultant for his lungs, dieticians, speech and languate therapists besides his regular nurses, phyiso, occupational therapist. Everyone is so caring.

The next T-Mobile Local Support Challenge takes place at BMX Park Darmstadt / Germany on 28th of July. This time the BMX teams will battle in the discipline BMX Miniramp.

The Local Support style stays the same: Every national BMX spot can compete with one or more teams, each consisting of three riders – thereby it doesn´t matter, if the rider is a pro or am, sponsored or not.

The best team wins money for a new Local Support Obstacle for their local BMX park. Furthermore there are many other top-prizes for the challenging teams, like for example a complete organized BBQ for 30 persons including a BBQ-master. The best unsponsored teamrider receives the T-Mobile Wildcard and goes directly to the BMX Miniramp final of the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds Summer Session on 26th of August in Hamburg. 

Mankind is very happy to announce that close friend and hyper energy duracell Björn “Bommel” Mager from Berlin, Germany is now riding for Mankind Bike Co. .

Bommel is overly friendly but also that generally loud and a lot talking nerd, which is even doing double whip flips after being a party animal the night before and looking like a zombie on a 20” inch.

You might have seen Bommel going bananas at the Masters in Cologne, if not come to Rebel Jam in Berlin and witness the slickness.

Mankind


Photo by: David Ullirch